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The history of singing birds : containing an exact description of their habits & customs, & their manner of constructing their nests, their times of incubation, with the peculiar excellencies of their several songs, the method of rearing them in cages & the preparation and choice of their food, also the disorders they are subject to with the mode of treatment, including the history & management of canary birds

by: Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc,comte de,1707-1788

Publication date: 1791

Topics: Songbirds, Canaries, Cage birds, Birds, Behavior

Publisher: Edinburgh : Silvester Doig Royal Exchange

Collection: biodiversity; ansphila-collection; additional_collections

Contributor: Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Library and Archives

Language: English

statement of responsibility: translated from the French of the Count de Buffon ; the whole ornamented with copper plates from drawings after nature

Translation of: Histoire naturelle des oiseaux

Engraved t.p. and half title page

In ms. on fly leaf: Wyatt Rawson, March 6th, 1858